Master MCSE : Windows Server 2022 OS Administration Course

Explore Windows Server 2022 highlights, including its 64-bit architecture and the need for a 64-bit processor, and understand how 64-bit input and output make the system faster than 32-bit.

Explore Windows Server 2022's advanced multilayer security capabilities, delivering in-depth defense and protection for servers today.

Learn how the Windows Server 2022 OS administration course enables cloud-backed backups and hybrid deployments, where a primary server runs on premises and a secondary runs in the cloud.

Leverage hybrid capabilities to manage Windows and Linux servers and VMs hosted outside Europe via Azure Arc, and use storage migration to move storage to Windows Server or Azure.

Discover the improved server manager with a customized dashboard to add services like DNS, BSP, and file server on local and remote servers across Windows Server 2012–2022.

Explore Windows Server 2022 installation options with GUI and desktop experience, showing how to select the standard evaluation and install the graphical user interface.

Discover how Active Directory on Windows Server centralizes permission management and user access across devices, with a recycle bin to restore deleted accounts and groups.

Configure disk quota to limit each user's hard disk usage on Windows Server, applying limits such as 1 GB for user1, 2 GB for user2, and 500 MB for user4.

Explore how the group policy management console centralizes user settings on Windows Server 2022, enforcing what users can do and applying uniform configurations like wallpaper and hidden desktop items.

Back up a full Windows Server or selected volumes and folders with Windows Server Backup. Recover the full server, volumes, or folders using Windows Server Recovery.

Discover how the domain name system acts as the internet's phone book, translating domain names like google.com into IP addresses to locate web servers.

Learn how Windows Server's Iris (Internet Information Services) enables hosting websites and web applications using IaaS for flexible, secure, manageable web servers in Windows environments.

Explore virtualization, enabling a single physical server to run multiple operating systems through virtualization software, creating multiple virtual machines on one host and reducing hardware needs.

Deploy and install Windows across multiple PCs remotely via the Windows Deployment Service (WDS) that boots from the network.

Define a computer as an electronic device that takes input from the user, processes it, and produces output. Learn this foundational concept in detail in upcoming slides.

Explore how a computer takes input from devices like the keyboard, processes data in the CPU—the brain housed in a cabinet—and outputs results to a monitor, using binary numbers.

Explore computer architecture by tracing how keyboard input moves from memory to the CPU's control and arithmetic logic units, then outputs results via memory and the output device.

Explore Charles Babbage as the father of the computer, tracing the origin of the digital programmable computer and Babbage's analytical engine as the basis for modern ideas.

Explore the ENIAC, the first generation computer launched in 1945, built with vacuum tubes and weighing about 24,000 kilograms, an electronic numerical integrator and computer.

Explore the second generation computer built with transistors and its full version commissioned in April 1955, also known as the transistor computer.

Third generation computers use integrated circuits (ICs). ICs first came into use around 1961, with military applications driving early adoption.

Explore the fourth generation computer launched in 1970, featuring microprocessors, now called CPUs, and powered by VLSI technology. Discover how VLSI enables up to 1 million transistors on the processor.

Explore the fifth generation computer, launched in 1989, powered by ultra large scale integration and more than 1 million transistors, with artificial intelligence capabilities.

Discover how mainframe computers serve large organizations with critical applications and bulk data processing, and trace milestones from the Harvard Market to IBM's first mainframe.

Explore the invention of the world's first personal computer, credited to John K Blankenbaker in 1970, recognized by the Computer History Museum and the American Computer Museum.

Explore the development of the IBM first personal computer, the 5150 model released in 1981, and learn why it is commonly known as the IBM PC.

Microsoft developed the operating system for the IBM PC, MS-DOS, a command-line system. MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Disk operating system.

Identify and explain computer components, including input devices, processors, motherboards, and primary and secondary storage, to understand how each part contributes to system operation.

Explore input devices, including the keyboard and mouse, and learn how keyboards enter letters, numbers, and symbols into a computer.

Identify the monitor as an output device that displays information in pictorial form, serving as the display for information on the screen.

Explore the processor, also called the cpu, its role on the motherboard and cpu cabinet, and how to evaluate processor specifications—speed, bitness, front side bus, cache, virtualization, and generation.

Learn how processor speed is measured in hertz, megahertz, and gigahertz, with examples like 1.4 GHz, 2.4 GHz, and 4.3 GHz, and verify speed via this PC's processor properties.

Explore processor cache memory as a fast, small, temporary store for frequently used data, and learn about L1, L2, and L3 caches and how to view them in Task Manager.

Discover how processor virtualization enables a single physical machine to run multiple operating systems by enabling and verifying virtualization technology (Intel VT-x or AMD-V) in your lab setup.

Learn how CPU cores, hyper-threading, and virtual cores influence performance, from single-core CPUs to multi-core and server configurations up to 32 cores.

Learn to determine processor generation by transistor size, from 28 nm to 14 nm, and identify your CPU generation by right-clicking This PC to view processor details.

Identify Intel and AMD as the major processor manufacturers, including client processors for PCs such as core i3, i5, and i7, and server processors like Xeon.

Explore how the motherboard connects CPU, RAM, storage, keyboard, and mouse to enable component communication, and compare client versus server motherboards with different CPU sockets and 24x7 versus limited use.

Explore storage fundamentals in Windows Server administration and distinguish primary storage from RAM and secondary storage from peripheral devices such as hard disk drives and USB drives.

Compare RAM and ROM as primary storage, noting RAM stores data for CPU processing and ROM is read-only, with data retention tied to power and boot.

Explore ram types from ddr2 to ddr4, examining chip size, pin counts, power usage, and notch positions to understand compatibility across ram slots.

Explore secondary storage by examining magnetic storage devices like hard disk drives, optical storage including CD, DVD, BRT, and flash storage such as pen drives and memory cards.

Explore how the hard disk stores data permanently and retains information when power is removed, and grasp its storage capacity within Windows Server 2022 OS administration.

Explore optical storage devices and their read/write capabilities, with examples like compact discs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs and their capacities ranging from 700 MB to 50 GB.

Explore flash storage as solid state technology built on flash memory chips. See examples such as USB drives and memory cards, and compare SSD to HDD as secondary storage.

Hard disk drives use moving parts and a platter, making them slower and delicate; solid-state drives use memory chips, have no moving parts, and are faster and more durable.

Understand how an SMPS powers a computer by supplying DC voltage to all system components and using a fan to keep the unit cool.

Explore how a network interconnects two or more devices to share files and resources, like printers, and why centralized printing over a network beats standalone PCs.

Explore different network types, including local area network, metropolitan area network, wide area network, pastoral area network, and campus area network, with detailed examination of their scope and use.

Connect devices in one physical location to form a local area network (LAN), enabling sharing of resources like printers and servers in a small office or building.

Explore how a metropolitan area network interconnects multiple lands within a city, connecting head offices and branches via switches across up to about 5200 kilometers.

Explore how a wide area network connects distant local area networks over a great distance, with examples of two LANs bridged by WAN and the Internet as a WAN.

Explore how a personal area network connects your devices within about ten meters, enabling wireless or wired links among smartphones, tablets, laptops, printers, and other personal devices.

Identify essential components to set up a network, including end devices, media and guided video, network interface cards, IP addresses, operating systems, and devices like switches and routers.

Identify end devices as sources or distributed devices in the network, with examples such as PC, printer, IP, phone, and server.

Campus area network (CAN) interconnects multiple local area networks in nearby buildings, enabling students in hostel and residential zones to access the library and the internet.

Explore media as a communication channel that connects networked devices and transmits data from source to destination, and examine the two types: guided media and unguided media.

Explore guided media, wired cables that carry signals over a physical link to deliver high speed and security, including coaxial, UTP, and fiber optic cables for local networks.

Connect a network interface card to a laptop or desktop, wired or wireless. The 48-bit Mac address uniquely identifies a device and enables access control.

A switch connects end devices to share information and resources across a local area network, using ports to connect computers with cables.

Compare hub and switch behavior, showing how a switch builds a mac address table and uses unicast forwarding after learning devices’ mac addresses, while flooding when unknown.

connects wireless devices to a LAN using RF signals, providing wifi connectivity without cables; acts like a switch but wirelessly, with coverage up to 2000 meters.

Learn how a wireless local area network controller centralizes management of hundreds of access points to simplify firmware upgrades and policy configuration across large networks, such as airports or malls.

Connect two routers to link separate LANs and enable communication between networks and the internet, while switches connect computers to a LAN and a router provides internet access.

Configure the firewall between the router and switch to secure the network and place internet-facing services in a dmz to protect the trusted zone from untrusted traffic.

Discover how IP phones use voice over IP to make calls over an IP network, connecting via the LAN and routers, and using the same UDP cable as data devices.

Discover how a wireless broadband router acts as a switch, router, access point, and DHCP server in a small network, providing IP address auto assignment and internet access.

Understand how operating systems mediate between hardware and users, translating instructions into binary, and distinguish client and server editions across Windows, Linux, and Android.

Explore the three Windows Server 2022 editions—essential, standard, and data center—with licensing limits: essential 25 users, standard two virtual machines, data center unlimited users and virtual machines.

Assess Windows Server 2022 hardware requirements: 1.4 GHz 64‑bit processor, up to 64 processors, virtualization tech notes, 4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB+ recommended), and up to 4 TB storage.

Explore multiple methods to install Windows Server, including DVD, USB flash drive, and ISO file downloads, with steps to boot and install on a server.

Determine lab computer specifications by checking processor speed, virtualization support, RAM (minimum 6 GB, 8 GB recommended), disk space (30 GB free), and Windows 10 as the preferred OS.

Download and install vmware workstation from the provided link, accept the license terms, and start the 30-day trial to create a virtual machine setup for Windows Server 2022 administration practice.